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instructors
Louie Al-Faraje, DDS
Louie Al-Faraje, DDS Diplomate, American Board of Oral Implantology / Academic Chairman,
California Implant Institute
After receiving his DDS Degree from the Dental School at Kiev State University Dr. Louie Al-Faraje moved to California where he finished a post-graduate program in 1994 at Loma Linda University to obtain California License (Loma Linda, California). He has an extensive education and experience in implant dentistry (having placed more than 3000 implants). He established
his private practice in San Diego, where he provides both advanced surgical and prosthetic phases of implant dentistry for his patients. Dr. Al-Faraje lectures frequently on implant-related topics. He is a California Dental Board registered continuing education provider and founder of California Implant Institute.
Objective
Complications associated with implant surgery can have a devastating effect on the outcome or the prognosis of dental implant treatment. This 1-day seminar will focus on how to identify, avoid and successfully manage FORTY potential surgical implant complications. At the end of this program, participants will have a better understanding of the etiology, prevention and management of as many as 40 complications related to surgical implant therapy.
Topics include:
Preoperative conditions that might lead to complications
• Inadequate vertical and horizontal restorative space
• Limited jaw opening & interarch distance
• Inadequate alveolar width for optimal bucco-lingual positioning
Intraoperative Complications in Implant Placement
• Incorrect angulations (bucco-lingual and mesio-distal)
• Malalignment
• Nerve injury
• Irregular, sharp or too narrow crestal ridge
• Extensive resorption of the mandibular alveolar bone
• Curved extraction socket
• Acute or chronic infection at the insertion site
• Retained root tips at the insertion site
• Overheating the bone during implant site preparation
• Sinus and nasal floor perforation
• Accidental partial or complete displacement of dental implants into the maxillary sinus
• Accidental displacement of dental implants into the maxillary incisive canal
• Deep and shallow implant placement
• Complications in flapless implant placement
• Implant fracture
• Excessive torque during insertion / compression necrosis
• Inadequate initial stability / loose implant
Postoperative complications
• Postoperative pain and its management
• Incision line opening & proper suturing techniques
• Cover screw exposure during the healing period
• Bone loss during the healing period / Thread exposure
• Implant mobility during second-stage surgery
• Implant Periapical Lesion (IPL) and the retrograde peri-implantitis
• Radiotherapy and dental implants / osteoradionecrosis
• Shallow vestibule secondary to ridge augmentation